FX Teleport, Bidule, Extra Processing Power!

One of the reasons Bidule looked so compelling to me has to do with FX Teleport. Currently if you are using a Mac computer you have to use a Windows server and Windows process farms. In some of the /Virtual Intrument/ mags they were saying that you can install some sort of host in the server and stream from you host computer to the server. I was thinking about how flexible I would want that host to be and this is exactly what I was thinking about. Something to break out of the usual. I want my software to do more for me than hardware.
This actually reminds me of something else. With a setup like this I am not sure it matters what platform your host is on. Are you catching were I am going with this? Linux, Windows, Mac with the appropriate hardware your server and the farm computers could be a constant that your host platform and DAW utilizes.

First, FX Teleport 2 is due for release probably somewhere around the same time frame as Leopard. That will allow Mac host with Mac farms, Mac host with PC farms, or PC host with PC farms, but apparently not PC host with Mac farms.

But with for now FX Teleport is PC only. The most streamlined system would be to have a PC running a VST compatible host etc. Then attach your farm computers. But in one of the /Virtual Instruments/ magazine articles they spoke of a way to run a Mac host with FX Teleport. Article title: /Studio Farms/ by Jesse White. This method seems to me to be most flexible to me.

Here are the components:
Host machineGigabit network
File server computerFarm computers

The Server will have to be a beast of a computer because it will hold all of your samples and plugins. The fascinating thing about this method is that any plugin can be instantiated on any of the farms and thesamples (where needed) are streamed from the server! Also even if your DAW doesn't support VST instruments and plugins you can stream MIDI and audio from the host to the file server. So you have a VST compatible host on the file server with as much flexibility as possible in terms of combining and using instruments and effects. Once you have created your preferred effects this will be your constant.

If you use a Mac, utilizing bootcamp you can run Window, Mac, or Linux and now your effects and instrument farm is completely host agnostic. I doesn't matter if you use Tracktion, Ardour, Rosegarden, LogicPro, ProTools. The other intriguing things is that you can use UAD, PowerCore, etc as long as they are installed on the file server.

In some cases you can send the MIDI, and KVM over the network from host to fileserver.